It sounds as if you might have done a server install instead of a regular install. A regular install is supposed to give you a GUI.
You don't need a CD if you have an internet connection. When you get to a black screen with white text and a login prompt, log in. You should then get a prompt that looks like this: Code:
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It works! Not sure how, not sure why :P
Its currently installing i shall report back later. 1 more question. Is there a way to re-arrange the order of the OS in GRUB boot loader, the technoboic people in my house want it to boot xp by defualt.... ****** When i say it worked, i mean it worked, mounting the cd and getting the files from there |
Ok i now get the GUI login screen but whenever i try to login with my user name i get
home/tom appears to be your directory this does not exist setting your directory to /root this is unlikely to work unless you run in terminal mode is there something i need to do get a user to login? |
Try to go with ctrl+alt+f1 in command line and
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all three of those lines give me operation not permitted errors
any other ideas. Also any way of changing the default OS in GRUB? |
Just had to boot into windows for something and noticed that the user profiles i had created were appearing under the FAT32 partition i created, shouldn't they be on the linux partition???
Becuase i wanted to dual boot XP i found a guide which suggested splitting my 80GB hd into 50GB Windows 14GB Linux 1GB Linux Swap file 5GB FAT32 is this screwing it up? |
With what username do you login in command line? If it is your username (i assume tom) do you type these commands as seen above? If yes then the system asks the password. Do you type the password of the user that is currently loged in?
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sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst-backup Code:
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I login with tom and when i type the sudo commands i type the root password...
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Oh there is one way for me to login, if i start in recovery mode, login with root and then run StartX i get gnome up but lots of things dont work, like the media player, ect... does this make any difference?
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ECTFSTAB[NEWFILE] 0,0-1 All no idea what this means tho Why did someone say they needed my password? |
I did manage to change the GRUB boot order by logging in throught the root, and then changing the text file
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Hmmm without seeing the full fstab file it is hard to understand what you mean. Maybe a copy paste here would help
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